Live versions of songs are never as good as the studio / album versions. Now reply with the rare exceptions to this rule..
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) January 3, 2023
Tori Amos’ “Winter,” Montreaux Pop Festival, 1991. Far superior to the album version, and one of the best live performances ever captured.
Republican Governor Nixes Thousands of Green Energy Jobs, Fearmongers About Communism.
One of the reasons red states over time will become hellholes — ideology over jobs, etc.
in fairness to the tech guys who are amazed that a chatbot can pass an exam, those tech guys can’t write for shit and think written exams are extraordinarily difficult
— knife-wielding hemophiliac (@NickTagliaferro) January 23, 2023
This is true. I can spew out an essay on anything at any time with no reference materials. It’s not even hard. Conversely, most people in tech are terrified of writing and very, very bad at it.
HAES is bullshit; always has been, always will be. I hate the Fat Acceptance movement so much for promoting that clown crap.
The Ukrainian military claims to have killed more than 121,000 Russian troops in Ukraine. I suspect this is roughly accurate.
At this rate, assuming the conflict goes for another three years (my guess), roughly half a million Russians will die there in a pointless war.
Jesus Christ.
Much like all the evidence doesn’t shift the antivax crowd, the fact that flu/RSV did exactly as experts who aren’t chasing clout predicted won’t change any minds in the COVID = aids crowd.
But it remains nice to see! https://t.co/uEfYwvHY2X
— Tom Wallach, MD (@md_wallach) January 20, 2023
What I’ve seen is that no amount of evidence changes anyone’s mind about anything. It’s very damn weird.
SHERP The Ark is one of kind piece of equipment that can overcome the most terrible and tough terrains possible. It can carry up to 22 people including the crew on board
[full video: https://t.co/FT5CXSU1M7]pic.twitter.com/E4i7oHjliw
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 22, 2023
Dang, the gas mileage on that thing must be gallons per mile.
*chatGPT passes United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)*
“This just tells us how terrible the exam is”
Wild to watch people move the goalposts on AI in real time pic.twitter.com/igk8fMWj6g
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) January 23, 2023
This will always be true of AI. If we ever have fully human-level AI, the goalposts will move to “doesn’t need to breathe, therefore not intelligent.” Shit, half of sf about AI is about this very thing.
DARPA remains underrated as a driver of innovation pic.twitter.com/EWI7KghdJS
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) January 24, 2023
Indeed. No DARPA, and about 40% of the advances we take for granted in modern life would just not exist, or would be substantially worse.
What do female writers do poorly when writing male characters?
Good thread! Women often — rightly — complain about male writers doing a poor job of characterizing women, but women writers often deal with male characters just as horribly in my opinion. I’ve seen some absurd shit written by women, no different than men writing garbage like, “She breastily emerged from the pool as her all-encompassing chestly being swayed breast-takingly.”
It’s just that women don’t get criticized often for writing horrible, unrealistic male characters and men do regarding writing women. Don’t understand quite why, though. Maybe because a lot more women read than men?